“Mobile and post-PC transition; disruption of the enterprise IT stack”

Greatest insight provided by Founder of Sequoia Capital Company

“Omar Hamoui, AdMob - Pedigree is meaningless in the face of authenticity and personal passion”

First job

“Mowing expansive lawns in the Midwest”

Companies founded

“VitalSigns Software”

Assigned patents

“6,216,163 TCP/IP flow analysis mechanism to determine network and application performance from an end user's perspective (2001); 5,987,493 TCP/IP mechanism for determining the load on a server in a network (1999)”

Written skills

“C, C++, Javascript, C and Bourne shell, Fortran, Basic, RTL, ICE51”

Most terrifying memory

“Pitching to venture capitalists for the Series A as Founder at VitalSigns”

Venture Team

We like working with founders at the earliest stages of company creation. We almost always have one or two of these small companies working inside our office, within shouting distance of recruiting, marketing, business development services—and, of course, our Partners.